Is explicit primitive type casting supported?

Question

Is there a way to "down cast" a custom primitive type back to its original primitive? For example casting type AwesomeType byte to byte for use by a Writer ?

Answer 1

You can simply cast with the type you want:

var a AwesomeType; b := byte(a)

Example: http://play.golang.org/p/-Sj7zmz6zt